Analysis Of The Book ' By Patricia Mccormick

In the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is a 13 year old mountain girl who lives in Nepal. She has been sold to somebody as a prostitute for 10,000 rupees but she doesn't know that. The value of a human life is more than just a dollar amount.

The first type of abuse discussed includes sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Many would believe that these two types of abuses are one in the same, but they are not. Sex trafficking involves the act of taking a human from one country to another country with the intent to use them for prostitution. Forced prostitution is the act of mentally or physically intimidating a human to perform sex for value. In both of Rath and Meena’s stories, they were forced to sell sex for money that they would not receive. Rath’s story is an example of sex trafficking, as she unknowingly was taken into sex trafficking from her home in Cambodia to Malaysia. Rath believed that she would be working in a Thai restaurant with her friends, but sex traffickers forced them in prostitution in Malaysia. As the term “sex trafficking” has been used

Trauma is an individual’s visceral reaction to a horrible event, events such as early childhood traumas, accidents, sexual abuse, or community violence (apa.org, 2016). An individual may react with shock and denial in the aftermath. As time continues some reactions may comprise of mood swings, intrusive memories, difficulties maintaining relationships and can manifest into physical symptoms to include headache or upset stomach. There are individuals who experience difficulties functioning in their daily lives; these observable responses are a normal response to the trauma (apa.org, 2016).

The author of this book gives an in-depth explanation as to why many people today still do not view human trafficking as slavery. Because of mainstream influence, society assumes only females that are uneducated, poor, or in prostitution are trafficked. In reality, young children or teenagers who are kidnapped and forced into trafficking make up a lot of the sex trafficking industry. The writer goes on to explain that this stereotype is both inaccurate and a hindrance to obliterating trafficking in today’s world. Lastly, this author thinks that in order for human trafficking to be viewed as a real world threat to society, the media must step in and cover this topic with tenacity in hopes to uncover what really goes on behind the trafficking

The author talks about being in brothels, massage parlors, street corners, and apartments across the world. Instead of making the book a narrative the author decided to recount a life-altering journey, one that motivated in a newfound mission to contribute to more successful international efforts to abolish sex trafficking and all other forms of contemporary slavery. The author mentions the slavery still exists may surprise some readers, but the practice of violently coerced labor continues to thrive in every corner of every

Re-experiencing an event occurs in different ways. First, a person may have disturbing recollections of the traumatic event consciously while awake or unconsciously in a dream state. Other events may occur to trigger symptoms and the affected person may dissociate while reliving the traumatic moment or moments. The layman’s term, “flashback”, defines the common re-experiencing event where a person feels as though he or she is reliving the trauma (Kulkarni et al., 2011; Norman, 2000; Owens, Baker, Kasckow, Ciesla & Mohamed, 2005).

The devastating story of the thirteen year-old girl, Lakshmi, endures all kinds of hardship when she was sold into sex trafficking in hopes to earn her family more money. Patricia McCormick shows her readers the horrors of the reality of sex trafficking, through the eyes of Lakshmi, a girl in her book in Sold. All of the victims make life-changing decisions hoping to help their families have a better life. Every one of them go through many individual circumstances that make each of them a different person to help them with their situation. In Sold, Patricia McCormick uses the sex slaves experiences to show how people become stronger as they overcome the challenges in their lives.

Emotional numbness and avoidance of places, people, and activities that are reminders of the trauma.

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered unspeakable acts of brutality and witnessed horrors that would haunt her for the rest of her life – until, in her early twenties, she managed to escape. Unable to forget the girls she left behind, Mam became a tenacious and brave leader in the fight against human trafficking, rescuing sex workers – some as young as five and six – offering them

Siri’s story illustrates the complicated dynamics of sex trafficking. Prostitution and sex work in general has become part of the global economy (Truong 1996). Some women choose to go into the sex industry while others are deceived or forced into it. Human trafficking networks usually use deception, coercion, or force to push women into sexual slavery. Some women migrate with the knowledge that they wil l be doing sex

In a small village consumed by poverty a man in a business suit shows up. He goes from family to family offering to buy children for a year’s worth of pay. He gets to one family with a young girl whose father sells her to feed his addiction for heroine. Scared and confused the girl is now forced into a brothel, sexually pleasing more than 20 men a day. Nearly five years later she is rescued only to lose her life to AIDS from unprotected sex. The human trafficking industry in Thailand has long been overlooked both internally and externally. Corruption, greed, foreign relations, economic pressure, and overall demand have fueled the trafficking industry in Thailand. Until the world and the Thai government make serious changes to the way they

Imagine a four year old girl growing up in contemporary Cambodia. Each morning she wakes up miles from home, homesick and scared. She is forced to beg for money for the brothel that she belongs to, and all of her earnings go straight to her master. Then, that night, about seven men come to the brothel. These men, some as old as fifty, often pay as little as two dollars to partake in sexual intercourse with these school-aged children. The toddlers enslaved in the horrific sex trade are forever stripped of their purity, making human trafficking a major issue in present day Cambodia. Over 30,000 children are sexually exploited annually (“Children for Sale”), and millions have been forced into human trafficking

Loss of speech, sleeplessness, self-harms, nightmares, having suicidal thoughts or actions are some signs that indicate a child that has experienced a traumatic event. Trauma is a reflective emotion, triggered by how an individual /child may react to a frightening or shocking situation. It is defined by the reaction of the child to a specific event. However, trauma to one child may not be trauma to another. But the child that experiences this can be scared for a lifetime. This strain can begin as soon as birth is given to a child, throughout his /her eighteen (18) years of childhood. Nevertheless that child can have flashback of the event straight over into their adulthood depending on how they cope with the situation.

Perhaps the most disturbing, yet intriguing parts of the film were the interviews with the Cambodian male clients who justify their desire for sex with young virgin girls because of their cultural beliefs about maintaining their youthful appearance and health. Participating in sexual activities with virgins is also believed to be a way of avoiding the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. The film delicately explains the cycle of young girls who are destined to remain in prostitution because there are no other options for them to earn money once they are forced into the

Piper (2005) discovered that in the Mekong sub-region trafficking resembles more of a cottage industry where recruiters are often local individuals who have established a relationship with the families of the recruited girls. On the other hand, the exploitative services recruited for can vary from prostituting in Rome to bonded labor inside a factory in India. Additionally, Kara (2009) provides an illustration of broken promises by recruiters to two underage girls. Julia, now 17 and pregnant, arrived in Rome from Romania at age 14 (Kara, 2009). She traveled with Alyssa who was also, the same age (Kara, 2009). They traveled together with the help of a man who promised work in a restaurant, but instead they ended up as prostitutes in the streets of Rome (Kara, 2009).